The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-16
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL!
The Kinks in Social Life at
Washington.
WIEN GREEK MEETS GREEK
Honest John's" Latest Eccentrieity
on the Mormon Questfon-The New
ada-Utah-Idaho Scheme.
WASHINGTON. January 10. 1887.

From our owl Correspondent
1t would be a strange thing indeed, if
in this gay and festive city, and especi.
ally during a session OF Congress a single
week should pass away without leaving
in its trail some kind of sensation
Washi. gton is by no means the metrop
ois of this country. AS compared with
New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, il
is simply an oVergrowu village Except
at certain hours of the day, lis streets
are duh as far as the number OF pedes-
trisns upon them is concerned; ii e
is always an absence OF the ;errib e
traffic, on foot or on wheel, that is
constantly going on, by night and by
day, in either of the large cities have
mentioned. Yet
WASHINGTON Is THE GREAT CENTRE
for the assimilation of news. 1t is the
headquarters of the elite OF society. and
as a general rule wherever the ellie
are to be found-though to saw so is
hard on the elite-there is ever and anon
something transporting that is q DAYS or
week s or a months wOndsr-some-
thing that eXciteS the admiration of al,
good men and women, or shocks tine
moral and Intellectual feelings of tae
same class of people. Washington is
just that sort of a city. In it there is
always neutrality-suspicious. sur lie tdDis.
The scandal may not appear in print.
but 1t becomes the common propertv Of
men and and women who are residents
IN or frequenters of the leading hotels.
which, in word, are the grand gossip
shops, or manufactures of news, in |
every city of any importance. l have |
many time, in the midst of BODY of |
newspaper men, congregated in the |
lobby of leading hotel in this town.
listened with amazement to the tales |
they related in regard to the character
of some of Americas best known and |
most respected men and women. They
asserted that they knew so and so to he
4 fact, and while it would never do to
make bare the ltact Sin cold type, still
It passed from mouth to mouth as the
common property of a scandal-Ioying.
,ruel, relentless public.
During the past week Washingtoniaus
lave had
ONE OF THESE DISHES
erved to their taste. No, it was not a
uit for divorce. 1t has all arisen
through case which is being heard in
he old Circuit Court of this CITY. in
which man in the employ of the gov
.rnment. and of excellent repute. is
LONG the very utmost that the law will
How to prove his wife insane. | refer
o the case of Prof. Emmons, of the
biological Survey, against his wife,
Neltha a. Emmons-a case in which
he SymDathies OF every right thinking
nan and woman are drawn out to the
1llest extent. Both the contestants
re comparatively young. They were =.
larrled in London, England in 1876.
he. husband claims that his wife.
hortly after their marriage, showed
gins OF insanity. Yet they lived )
ogether until last year, when, after an !
xhaastlVe examination before a jury,
lrs. Emmons was adjudged insane and
ent TO the Bloomingdale Asylum. New
.ork. From this she was transferred
an asylum in Connecticut, and then
the Butler Hospital. at Providence,
!. |. From the latter place she emerged
July last, and since then has been O
trip to Europe and back. About two
eeks ago she arrivediin Washington and !
" up at Wormley's Hotel, where she '
serted, in the presence of friends who l
allied upon her, that she had been
adjudged insane, and that
lie q
HAD BEEN CRUELTY PROSECUTED Il
being confined in an asylum. The
1sband then appeared upon the scene. d
ID last week he again instituted pro-
'edings with view to having his wife Y
cleared insane. She told him to 90 n
lead; that she had evidence in her f
'sSesslon, she thought, that would II
Iplaln his past and present conduct d
ward her. he did go ahead. Thel \
nt was commenced, and has occupied a
e attention OF the court for the h
eater portion of last week. The trumn a
I'd which the defendant, through her :,
wyer, has played, accuses her husband Il
inidelity to his marriage VOW; saws :.
at
He KEPT MISTRESS; y
at, for $500, she procured a bundle of
tiers from said mistress that proved s.
guilt; and that from the time of q
Is discovery he had sought, in order n
cover his own shame, to have her il
eIared insane. What the determine q
IN OF the jury will De no one eau pre-. n
It. The greatest interest, however. is al
Ing taken in the trial. The court L
ON Is crowded every day 1t reminds
e of the Guiteau trial. when almost
y price was offered for a seat The
ger ten are there in force, especially
ose OF the female sex. The case
ans also to have attracted the atten-
N OF every crank IN the district. As II
V ole, it Is the most curious audiences of
ever beheld; perfect study for an \,
lst; picture that one can never 20
lifera'e from his memory. How the to
al Will terminate, no one, as | have ST
u, can fogteil. Public svmnatbv as